Okay, I am embarraessed. I promised an update by the 22nd, and here we are on the Sunday after, with me just barely starting the chapter. You guys can flame me all you want, I deserve it. I have not been in the best of moods lately....My dad has no trust in me at all. (girls, you will understand this a little better)

*dejected look*

Well, I almost missed a certain little time-of-the-month thing, it came a week late. SO, what does my father do? He accuses me of doing something that would result in a pregnancy. I'm not joking. Of course, I did no such thing, but I could not convince him otherwise. I have been locked in my room for while now, with no access to Internet, because my father thinks I will meet someone and do 'something' again. I am very shaken up at the moment, and apologize for the week-late updates on all my stories. I hope you all will bear with me here, I have absolutely no intention of stopping any of my Fanfiction.net stories. All my stories will have been updated by now, A Kitsune's Wish might be a day late because of limited access, though. Again, I apologize so much about my broken promise, hey, flames are accepted if you feel the need to punish me.

As always, no spell-check, so mistakes are not intentional, nor do they mean I am stupid. (although.....some people think I am.....*whimpers in general direction of father*) *goes off to sit in a corner*

Riinuka: looks like I have multiple personalities.....*points to a version of herself, wearing a black kimono with silver pawprints on the shoulders*

Nayami: I am the embodiment of all her problems, stress, and everything hurtful ever said or done to her, hence the name....*is staring at the ground, with a saddened look on her face*

Riinuka and Nayami: *both sitting there, looking at the reviewers*

Remember the Past: chapter 7 (yeah, I thnk I got that right...)

Sesshoumaru rolled over, sweat forming on his face. He growled, warding away enemies that were not there.

The Lord of the Western Lands was dreaming, and it did not seem to be a very good one. Tossing and turning, he slashed at the air, growling in frustration.

The hooded figure walked in, carrying a dark rose. Placing it on a small table, she drew her hood away from her face, looking at the taiyoukai.

(congratulations, people. One person guessed who it was, out of the TWO that reviewed. Well, I could consider that 50% of the reviewers were able to guess....^^ Anyway, good job, but I forgot your name....sorry...!)

Kanna crept closer, startled by his expression. (although she didn't show it....^^)

Sitting down next to him, she pressed a rose to his forefead, and he relaxed.

*new dream*

Sessoumaru walked through his home, surveying the decorations. Just after his mother had 'mysteriously' passed away, his father had found a new mate. Sesshoumaru paid no heed, ignoring all the occupants of the castle. Even the youkai servants pitied him, for they knew and understood his plight. His father, respected Lord of the Western Lands, had mated a human.

Scornfully, Sesshoumaru swiped his claws through a new tapestry. It had been brought by her. Looking at the marred cloth laying there, he had wondered how the insanity of his father had been brought on. First, he fathers a hanyou son with another woman, while he was still mated to his mother. Then, he lets the pup kill her, so he can have an excuse to marry the human.

Sesshoumaru wasn't even sure if his father had married the same human that had given birth to his half-brother. Knowing his father, the pup's mother could have been any human servant girl in the whole palace. He loathed his father even more at the thought, and lurked around the palace, destroying all of his step-mother's new additions to the decor.

*back in the conscious world..*

Kanna stared as Sesshoumaru once again became restless. His desire not to recall this one memory was so intense, that he managed to break the grip the flower held, and return to his previous dreams.

He rolled over, facing away from her, exhausted.

'It is no wonder he is weary....' Kanna thought to herself. 'He has only recently had his soul returned to him...'

*original dream*

It was those flowers. Hundreds, thousands of them, caving in, suffocating him. They were all around, covering his eyes, muffling his cries of surprise. He drew his claws through them, decimating millions of blooms, only to have five more take each one's place. He closed his eyes, as they engulfed him completely.

A warmth flew over him, and he brought up his hand. Shielding his eyes, he squinted into a warm glow, as the roses disintigrated in front of him. He took a step foward, trying to see who the figure was.

The person who had sent out the blast smiled, the face hidden. But it quickly faded away, replaced by a dark shadow. Darkness engulfed the world around him, and he fell unconscious.

Opening his eyes, he looked around in horror. He was laying on a patch of grass, in the middle of a frenzied stone catastrophe.

Shiny, metal things swerving past, making loud noises, and choking him with poisonous vapors. Blinking lights hurting his sensitive eyesight. So many smells, overloading him with too may descriptions. Too many humans, all of them oblivious to him. Worst of all, the noise. It was defeaning, making him cover his poor ears in pain. He stood up, dizzy from all the new things, stumbling around, screaming, almost driven to insanity. All the ningen, those metal monsters, too many noises, too many lights, too many thins for him to BEAR!

*back to reality*

"No! WHAT IS GOING ON?! WHERE AM I!?" Sesshoumaru shouted, sitting up in fright. He stared wide eyed at his hands, sweat pouring down his temples. That place....it was overwhelimg. What sort of place was that!? Most of all, how did he come to be in it? Surely, not even his mind could have imagined all of those things thrown into one place, it was inconciveable!

"Relax. It was a dream. I have just given you a little sample of what the future holds. If you survive that long, this all will come to pass. Kagome, the one who travels with Inuyasha, was born in this world. To her, all those things you witnessed are everyday occurences." Kanna said, offering him a cloth soaked in water.

Too startled to say anything, or even to notice where he was, Sesshoumaru just nodded and took the cloth.

"W-where...what time is that... when will it happen?" he asked, oblivious to the utsuro-youkai sitting camly next to him.

"This transformation will take place gradually over the next five- hundred years." she said calmly, watching him bury his face in the cloth.

"I can't believe this.... how do you know of this? How did you know what I had drempt?" he said, looking up. "Who ARE you? And where am I?!" he said, becoming unnerved.

"It is alright, you are in no harm here with me. I see into the minds of others, as well as viewing what the future might have in store for all. My identity is unimportant in this case.You are in an underground den, where I have brought you." she said, answering all of his questions without missing a beat.

"H-how.... did I get here....wait..." he said, putting his fingers to his temple. "You.... it was you who showed up at the castle... but, why was I blinded...?" he said to himself, tiredly.

"You need to rest, Sesshoumaru-sama. You have had a very... eventful evening. I shall wake you in the morning, and we may talk more, if you wish." Kanna said, taking the cloth, and setting it next to the rose.

Looking at the flower, Sesshoumaru's eyes widened in recognition. "Where did you obtain that?" he asked, picking it up.

"I own many of them, I do not recall how I came into possession of them." she replied, taking the bloom and slipping it into a bouquet suspended from the wall.

He stared at her, wondering what she was. She had the ears and general faetures of a youkai, but she harbored no youki. Her eyes were strangely empty, giving her an undead look.

'Could she be... a revived youkai..? Maybe, the same way that dirt wench that my half-brother knows was brought back...?' he considered this, but decided she was very much alive.

Taking in her scent, he confirmed that there were no traces of bone, or dirt. 'But wait....what is this, she has no scent at all?!' he realized, shocked. The only scent he could detect, was the rich smell of the yami- bara, and the scent of her plain, white kimono!

'What sort of enchantment is this...' he wondered, but realized that none could be placed without the aid of youki.

Closing his eyes wearily, he decide some sleep would help, and lay down.

'Haven't I....seen her before....?' he thought, sleep threatening to overtake him.

Kanna lent over him, touching two fingers to his temple. With her influence, he fell asleep immediately.

---------------------------------------(back at the castle...)-------------- ---------------------

Yamiko landed just inside the castle grounds, walking up to the guard post. She twirled the rose absently, and stopped dead in her tracks. The guards were laying there, lifeless, with no visble cause to their mysterious death.She knelt down, taking a guard's head into her lap.

It was a young coyote youkai, a mixed breed of some sorts. No one had bothered to determine his other youkai heritage, for it was almost unnoticeable when you looked at him. Only the strange properties that made up his scent and youkai gave the hint that he wasn't all coyote. Some of the others suspected it might have been dragon, beacuse once in a while his back and arms would grow leathery, and wings would appear for a short period of time.

Cradling the young youkai's head in her arms, she gently comforted the souless body.

"Only around fifty years old..." she whispered, stroking his face tenderly. Setting him down gently, she looked to the other guard. This one was a pure-breed, and a powerful one at that. A white wolf, this guard had been the runt of the litter. That had changed, though, when he was brought into the castle, and cared for.

Letting her fingers run through his greyish hair, she wondered what could have happened. No one could have beaten these two easliy, and whoever it was had done a really good job of it. It wasn't a physical death, neither had injuries...

She sat there, looking at the wolf youkai, shocked at what had happened to the two poor souls.

"And you....you weren't barely any older than him, were you..?" she asked, setting him down next to his partner. Looking up, she watched a little transparent light flitter around, but she dismissed it for a lightning bug. She got up to walk away, but stopped at a noise.

Turning around, she saw the coyote's chest heave a few times, and his eyes flew open.

"Aah...?..where....I'm..." he panted, sitting up. He slumped over, staring at his hands, as if he was grateful that they were there. He looked next to him, and saw his partner laying there, dead.

"Shiou..." he said, in a saddened awe. He slowly stood up, but fell to one knee.

Yamiko, snapping out of her dumbfounded state, rushed over to him.

"D-daijou bu!?" she cried, watching him as he grimaced. She looped her arm under his, and spred her wings.

"Here.. we need to get you up to the imfirmary..." she said, looking at him with worry.

"Sh-Shiou... how... did he die?" he asked weakly, looking at the wolf as they lifted into the air.

"I don't know...I have no idea what hapened...I thought you were dead, too..." she said, in slight shock that he was alive.

"I...I wasn't..." he said. "But, I wasn't... in my body..." he slumped over, almost falling out of her arms to the ground below.

"Be careful! You really need some rest... you can tell me what happened when we get up to the infirmary wing.." she said, flying to the castle's third floor.

"I'll get you fixed up in no time...." she murmured, watching him drift off into a fitfull sleep in her arms. Blushing a little, she moved him so as to carry him a little easier.

She noticed with great discomfort that the front doors to the castle were wide open, she would have to find Sesshoumaru-sama, and figure out just what was going on.

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(you guys get an extra long chappie, because I am feeling guilty about not updating, okay?? ^^...)

Sesshoumaru opened his eyes, not recognizing where he was. Then, as realization dawned on him, his usual demeanor returned. Sitting up, he looked around the room he was occupying. Unable to get a good look the previous night, he now took great interest in the decorations.

A small table sat next to the futon he was sitting upon, and on it was that cursed flower. Next to the blossom was a drying cloth, the one Kanna had offered him last night. He looked down at the futon itself, rubbing the material between his fingerpads. It felt like silk, but his claws did not scar it. It was a shade of light grey, with a white sheet underneath. The blanket was a deep scarlet, reminescent of the flower on the table.

He noticed a tapestry hung on the wall, next to the bouquet of roses. It read,

The incarnate, she created these blooms with such myrth
but a terrible mistake came with a reincarnate's birth

the first, she could easily control the effects
but these magical flowers left the second perplexed

only the realization of ancient powers can save
the ones whose memories make into a slave

but alas, this second, for she does not feel for those
no feelings, for the ones hurt so by a rose

the first, she could reverse if she felt for them sadness,
but with the new birth , those feelings are now draped in darkness

if even a soul she appears to have not,
a soul in hidden there, wishing to be saught

a little persuasion, kindness, cheer,
and maybe, her feelings might someday appear

however, not anytime soon will they come,
for her heart is cold, bleak, and numb

so, open her heart, find her feelings inside
for deep in her heart, she almost can cry

one emotion is starting to be
but, the wrong one it is, as you can see

if sadness were to dominate her mind
then there is no hope to learn to be kind

if this happens, then no moemories shall dispell
for only with kindness, will the old powers swell

He stared at the tapestry, wondering if it was speaking about Kanna. But, if his new suspicions were correct, she would not have a soul. Would she?

She walked in, carrying her mirror in one hand. He stared at her, trying to sense any traces of youki, emotion, anything that would give away the presence of a soul within those emptied eyes. As he thought, he could sense none.

She set the mirror down, eyeing a clouded streak in the glass.

"It looks like one of the souls I had captured had a great enough will to escape..." she murmured, passing a hand over the blur. It disappeared, gleaming oddly.

Sesshoumaru looked at that gleam, and gave an instictive shiver. 'Did..was that used...on me? Was that the light I saw...?' he thought, eyeing the mirror.

"I apologize, I had to temporarily remove your soul. I did not believe you would come willingly with me...." she said, looking down.

"Well, I am fine now, but tell me. Why did you bring me here in the first place?" he said, looking at her.

"It started with my master..." she began. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------

Wow... such a long chappie.... well, I am still:
1.dejected
2.watching teen titans.....*sings the teen titans theme* tsuki kirai...*is hit by a car*

Riinuka:..@.@......*sniff*

Nayami: ow.....*sinffs as well*

Rydel: PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ME!!!!! *grin*

Riinuka: Rydel is my 'friend', also known as the author Rydel Darkclaw. She likes to bug me, tease me, and generally anyhting to any me, including making fun of my Japanese. Which, includes when I sing. Hey, I do sing pretty good, at least I hit the right notes, and I am not going out of key every five seconds...

Rydel: I don't do that....MIERPH!! *throws pickles at Jyakken and Kikyou*

Jyakken: Sesshoumaru-samaaaa!!!!'

Sesshoumaru: *boots Jyakken in the head*

Kikyou:*melts because of the vinegar*

Everyone who hates Kikyou: YAYYYY!!!!!

Pile of mud that was Kikyou:...........minna-san wa bakayarou......

Riinuka: now, we can't be insulting the reviewers.....so, how did you guys like my poem? Was it good? A Kitsune's Wish has a poem as well, somewhere around chapters 3-5, I think....I can't remember...-_-;;

Anyway, It's So Wrong (pg-13), and Together (R) should be updated by the time you are reading this. A Kitsune's Wish should have the next chapter soon after.

Nayami: well, we hope you all review.....*looks back at the floor, after glancing at the readers*

Riinuka, signing off

Ja mata de....uh...hm, well, can't say 'yo', because I am not excited.....better settle for this...

Ja mata, minna-san......

Nayami: minna-san wa shimasu hyouron, nee? (everyone will do a review, riiight....?)